Laravel Valet makes spinning up almost any type of php site on your local Mac a breeze. There are some edge cases where you might not want to run a site within Valet. On macOS, it is really easy to run other local sites using a custom Nginx config files.

A friend ran into an issue with their Wordpress database becoming huge. First step was to figure out which table(s) was causing the issue. Doing an online search came up with this handy little MySQL query which returns the size in MB for all the tables in a database.

Today I discovered a pretty awesome looking piece of scanning software called scantailor. It apparently runs great on Windows and Linux, and the instructions say you can install it on macOS with Macport. For those of us that use Brew, the instructions were somewhat broken. Keep reading to see how I installed scantailor under macOS High Sierra